COMPANIONS

wife:

Mercedes Delpino. Vaudevillian. Teamed with Lahr in a a dance aact from c. 1919; had common law marriage until they officially wed on August 29, 1929; Lahr was granted an annulment in 1940 on the grounds that Delpino was clinically insane; mother of his son Herbert.

wife:

Mildred Schroeder. Actor. Married from February 11, 1940 until his death in 1967; mother of his son John and daughter Jane.